Central Asia in historical perspective
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Central Asia in historical perspective
(The John M. Olin critical issues series)
Westview Press, 1998
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Since the demise of Soviet power, the newly independent republics are redefining their identities and their relations with the world at large. In Central Asia, which lies at the crossroads of several cultures, the emerging trends are complex and ambiguous. In this volume leading experts explore factors that have driven the region's historical development and that continue to define it today: Overlapping Islamic, Russian, and steppe cultures and their impact on attempts to delimit national borders and to create independent states; the legacy of Soviet and earlier imperial rule in economic and social relations', and the competition between Uzbek, Tajik, and other group identities. The authors make few predictions, but their original and thought-provoking analyses offer readers new insight into those aspects of Central Asia's past that may shape its future.
Table of Contents
Preface -- Introduction -- Historical Background -- The Shaping of Central Asian Identities and Politics -- The Legacy of the Mongols -- The Symbiosis of Turk and Tajik -- Central Asia as a Part of the Modern Islamic World -- Volga Tatars in Central Asia, 18th-20th Centuries: From Diaspora to Hegemony -- Religion and Ethnic Relations in 20th-Century Central Asia -- Soviet Uzbekistan: State and Nation in Historical Perspective -- Tajiks and the Persian World -- Underdevelopment and Ethnic Relations in Central Asia -- The Influence of Islam in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan -- Central Asia and Russia -- Commensals or Parasites? Russians, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, and Others in Central Asia -- Post-Soviet Central Asia and the Commonwealth of Independent States: The Economic Background of Interdependence
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